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Fight me.
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The creator correctly says "jif"
It's an acronym standing for graphic interchange format. Not that I care all that much tbh. Reminds me of parents naming their kid cVIIItlyn. Sure you can pronounce it whatever you want, doesn't make you any less stupid. Also, iirc it was invented by a team, what do the rest of them say?
Only one guy is listed as the creator, Steve wilhite, who says "jif" is correct, famously and infamously making the pronouncement with a gif when he received his lifetime achievement award haha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBtKxsuGvko
Apparently, a common joke around his office was "choosy developers choose gif", a play on jif commercials.
He's a troll and giggles every time this comes up. This makes him my hero.
Sure. Why not, lem
That doesn't affect how it's pronounced.
LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. If you were going to pronounce it based on how those words are pronounced it would be "Lahseer".
The best reason to pronounce "gif" with a hard g is that the closest word we have is "gift" and that uses a hard g.
Just wanna say I didn't downvote you.
I get your argument, maybe we SHOULD pronounce it lahseer, sounds cool.
Lahseer does sound cool, but I'm in favor of words being spelled as fonetikuhly as possible in English.
In order to do that, we have to clean up what each letter does first. The whole reason the gif fight started is because G and J overlap in sound values a lot. And don't get me started on S, C, K, & Q.
And O.
But, still, there are letters that have fairly consistent pronunciations. Where possible we should try to stick with those.
I've given up on vowels. Mercedes, Echinacea, Manoeuvre, shield, beige, just throw them around until it looks right.
Isn’t there a video/gif asking if it’s pronounced “birthday jift”, “jolden retriever”, etc?
Gee, I'm sure there's some genuinely genius gentleperson who registered their generous gif genuflections.